Thursday, April 30, 2009

Change Package for Migrating Customization

Using Change Assistant to Migrate Customization between PeopleSoft Environments

Following are the basic steps involved
1. Create a new Project in PeopleSoft Application Designer
2. Navigate to Project Properties and specify the project to be Change Project.
3. Add all the necessary object to the project, include he file reference if any
4. Use Change Packager to generate Change assistant template
5. Finalize the change package using finalise change package option which generates a zip file

What to expect when you run the change packager?
1. Manifest – xml document that contains information about the package.
2. Manifest would have information about update id included in the package, pre-requisites if any, user information , manual steps , definition type wise count of objects
3. All with this it would create folders for
o Change Assistant Template
o Documentationo File References
o Project Folder
o 8.44 project folder
What to expect when we finalize the change project.
1. Zip file in the staging directory in the following format
Package

Step by Step document to follow. . . .